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    1911 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1911th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 911th year of the 2nd millennium, the 11th year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1911, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian ...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › M1911_pistolM1911 pistol - Wikipedia

    The Colt M1911 (also known as 1911, Colt 1911 or Colt Government in the case of Colt -produced models) is a single-action, recoil-operated, semi-automatic pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge. [9] The pistol's formal U.S. military designation as of 1940 was Automatic Pistol, Caliber .45, M1911 for the original model adopted in March 1911 ...

  3. Jan 13 South Africa cricket team's 1st win over Australia, at Adelaide. Jan 14 Roald Amundsen 's South Pole expedition lands on the Ross Ice Shelf. Jan 15 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives at San Francisco. Jan 16 Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east.

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    The earliest films, unless they were shown in variety theatres at the end of the programme to "play the audience out" or in town halls, were shown to shops "converted" into halls. These proved dangerous owing to the lack of exit facilities in the (frequent) event of fire. Later came properly built and equipped cinema theatres. One of the earliest o...

    Something of a theatrical sensation was caused in 1911 by the success of a company of Scottish players, until then unknown to London. Headed by Graham Moffat, who wrote the play 'Bunty pulls the strings', they came to Haymarket and the novelty of the pawky-peasant humour took the town by storm.

    On May 31st 1911, the White Star ocean liner Titanicwas launched. She is due to be finished in 1912 and will be the largest passenger steamship in the world, with a capacity of over 2,000 passengers. 1911 Census: Captain Edward John Smith

  5. 21 November – suffragettes storm Parliament in London. All are arrested and choose prison terms. 24 November – an explosion starting in the basement of Bibby's Oil cake mill in Liverpool leaves thirty-nine dead and one hundred and one injured. [ 15] 6 December – English Folk Dance Society formed by Cecil Sharp.

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  7. The 1911 stood up to a 6,000-round torture test, being submerged in mud and acid, shooting deformed cartridges, and other tests. Not only did Browning’s design (to be produced by Colt) pass with flying colors, it was the only gun to pass all stages of this grueling test.

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